ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,049, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DT SWISS INC. (Grand Junction, Colo.).
"Method of manufacturing a rim, rim, and tool device" was invented by Andreas Henig (Biel, Switzerland) and Thomas Renfer (Lengnau, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method for a fibrous composite bicycle rim, and a tool having two molding devices and one circular device. The two molding devices each have one flank contact surface. A molding device is selected and a matching auxiliary molding part is connected therewith, forming a mold surface for the rim base. A first fiber composite layer is applied to the molding device and the ...